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How to Choose the Right Employment Screening Service There are many reasons why the smart thing to do is to screen the people we employ.There are many areas of legislation which say that you must check certain details before employing someone. I will come onto that. There is also the matter of employing someone that could do vast damage to your brand or reputation. Here are the reasons choose right screening:
Ok so, the Rights to Work Check isn’t a new thing and has been enforceable in its current form since May 2014. Every employee needs to have been through a check, no matter where they were born. Signing an ID document and placing it in a recruitment file does not provide you a ‘statutory excuse’. There are many nuances to the Rights to Work Check; for example, did you know that if you employed a Romanian worker and didn’t supply the rear of their national identity card, which is blank by the way, this is non-compliant and a breach of the Rights to Work check! There is a £20,000 fine per person if you get it wrong! What if people you employ drive during their working day? There’s nothing unusual about that but as the employer have you checked that they have a valid driving licence to do so? Yes, that’s right you must check. A physical look at the licence isn’t enough. There are a couple of bits of legislation that might catch you out should the worst happen, and your employee be involved in an incident on the road in which the law has been broken. The Road Traffic Act 1988 says that a person is guilty of an offence if they allow, cause or permit the person to drive. This means if your employee is guilty of an offence, you are also guilty of allowing, causing or permitting that offence. If that isn’t terrifying enough this is also covered under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007. Fines for this one are unlimited. You must check that your employee has a driving licence which is in date,